Re: [address-policy-wg] [policy-announce] 2011-05 Last Call for Comments (Safeguarding future IXPs with IPv4 space)

This was discussed at the eix-wg and address-policy in Vienna. There are 133 known IXPs in Europe (according to Euro-IX) at the moment, and whilst we would all love to see more and more regional peering, the consideration was

Hi Andy, that

reserving addressing room for another ~200 IXPs (in the European region) ... before IPv6 is prevalent ... is acceptable.

I trust this answers your concern ? In summary this is a valid question, but it was considered at the time the proposal was drafted.

Yes it does.

And, if we run out of space for new IXPs before v6 prevalence, then whither the very internet, my colleagues ?

:-) Thanks for the answer. Regards, Erik Bais